Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), formally accepting the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, received a loud cheer from the crowd at the Republican National Convention after he relayed a story about his gun-loving grandmother.
The account came just days after Donald Trump was shot in the ear by an attempted assassin. The former president, sitting in the audience, listened as Vance retold the tale of his “Mamaw.”
“When Mamaw died shortly before I left for Iraq in 2005, and when we went through her things, we found 19 loaded handguns,” the former Marine said, drawing sustained laughter from many observers in the convention hall.
